Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence ...

Helmetia expansa was found to have walking legs and molting behavior, changing assumptions about its mobility and growth. For ...

Meet Mosura fentoni, a bizarre 506-million-year-old "sea-moth" with three eyes, claws, and an abdomen full of gills.

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

A newly discovered arthropod fossil, Mosura fentoni, has preserved eyes, nerves, and blood vessels - a rare insight into ...

New study sheds light on how insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other arthropods evolved their distinct body structures. By tracing these patterns back to ancient embryonic processes, the research ...

Despite differences in shape and size all insects are characterized by a body organization that includes three units: a head, thorax and abdomen (panels A-B). In contrast all spiders (and other ...

Samuel Rubin, a junior at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and colleagues announced the findings at the Experimental Biology 2014 conference in San Diego on Sunday (April 27) and in a paper in ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic University biologist Bradford Lister first collected data about arthropod biomass in Puerto Rico’s Luquillo rainforest in 1976. He and coauthor Andres Garcia, a biologist at the ...

Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem provides a novel model for understanding the development and evolution of arthropod body ...